1877 in Germany

Births

22 January – Hjalmar Schacht, German economist, banker, centre-right politician, and co-founder in 1918 of the German Democratic Party. (died 1970)
7 February – Julius Curtius, German (died 1948)
8 February – Albert Vögler, German politician, industrialist and entrepreneur (died 1945)
19 February – Gabriele Münter, German painter (died 1962)^[5]
3 March – Alexander Baerwald, German architect (died 1930)
4 March – Fritz Graebner, German ethnologist (d. 1934)^[6]
6 March – Karl Platen, German actor (died 1952)
12 March – Wilhelm Frick, German politician (died 1946)
15 March – Fritz Lang, German painter (died 1961)
19 March – Franz Joseph Emil Fischer, German chemist (died 1947)
29 March – Alois Kayser, Alsatian-born missionary (died 1944 in Micronesia)
15 April – Georg Kolbe, German painter (died 1947)
23 April – Hans Winkler, German botanist (died 1945)
4 June – Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (died 1957)
2 July – Hermann Hesse, German writer (died 1962)
13 September – Wilhelm Filchner, German explorer (died 1957)
15 September – Wilhelm Adam, German general (died 1949)
1 November – Else Ury, German writer (died 1943)
23 November – Franz Bracht, German politician (died 1933)
4 December – Morris Alexander, South African politician (died 1946 in South Africa)^[7]
19 December – Princess Pauline of Württemberg (died 1965)

12 January – Wilhelm Hofmeister, German biologist and botanist (born 1824)
18 February - Ernst Ludwig von Gerlach, German politician (born 1795)
20 February - Marie Simon, German nurse (born 1824)^[8]
22 February - Eduard Gaertner, German painter (born 1801)
18 April – Franz Hanfstaengl, German photograph and painter (born 1804)
22 April - August Wilhelm Zumpt, German German classical scholar (born 1815)
11 May – Albrecht Gustav von Manstein, German general (born 1805)
25 May – Friedrich Thyssen, German banker and patriarch of the Thyssen family dynasty (born 1804)
13 June – Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse, nobleman (born 1806)
13 July – Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler, German bishop of Roman-Catholic Church (born 1811)
14 July - August von Bethmann-Hollweg, German politician (born 1795)
12 September – Julius Rietz, German conductor and composer (born 1812)
26 September – Hermann Grassmann (born 1809)
18 October – Johann Carl Fuhlrott, German anthropologist and paleoanthropologist (born 1803)
2 November – Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, German Generalfeldmarschall (born 1784)
26 November – Richard Lucae, German architect (born 1829)
18 December – Philipp Veit, German painter (born 1793)

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